El Mostefa Surname

6,063,924th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 10 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
Mauritania

El Mostefa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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El Mostefa Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
France61:11,070,454349,096
Algeria21:19,315,77697,017
Mauritania21:2,047,43230,537

El Mostefa Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name El Mostefa Come From? nationality or country of origin

El Mostefa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻤﺼﻄﻔﻰ) is more frequently found in France than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name El Mostefa? popularity and diffusion

The last name El Mostefa is the 6,063,924th most frequently held family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 728,754,592 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 60 percent of El Mostefa are found; 60 percent are found in Western Europe and 60 percent are found in Gallo-Europe.

This surname is most frequently held in France, where it is borne by 6 people, or 1 in 11,070,454. In France El Mostefa is most frequent in: Île-de-France, where 100 percent reside. Beside France this surname occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Algeria, where 20 percent reside and Mauritania, where 20 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
El Moustefa953/
El Mostafa9047,556/
El-Mostefa901/
El Moustefe861/
El Mostafha861/
El Mostaffa861/
El Moustepha828/
El Mastafa80136/
El Mestafa804/
El-Mostafa802/
El Mostapha765,637/
El Mestepha761/
El Moustephe7313/
El Mosstapha7313/
El Moustaipha701/
El Mestapha679/
El Mastapha679/
El-Mostapha672/
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El Mostefa Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
El Mostefa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺍﻟﻤﺼﻄﻔﻰalmstfy50
ﺍﻟﻤﺼﻄﺎﻑalmstaf25
ﺍﻟﻤﺼﻄﻔﻲalmstfy25

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to El Mostefa
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